Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 569 343 797
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.64% 13.37% 13.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.10% 40.54% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 252 292 725
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,899 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,576 846 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.71% 32.98% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 689 632 1,462
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £34,175 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -6 127 £40,500 -7.43% 54
Cambridgeshire +4 123 £60,100 +20.20% 37
Hertfordshire -17 113 £58,750 +6.82% 48
Suffolk +22 78 £48,250 -3.50% 27
Norfolk +1 73 £60,000 +87.50% 21
Bedfordshire +6 52 £14,000 -72.00% 16
East Anglia 0 1 £95,000 +65.22% 24
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 47 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 35 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.93%) WordPress
4 9 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.88%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 77 (13.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.58%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.58%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.35%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 125 (21.97%) Power Platform
2 121 (21.27%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (16.34%) AWS
4 88 (15.47%) Azure AI
5 73 (12.83%) Entra ID
6 27 (4.75%) GCP
6 27 (4.75%) PowerApps
7 25 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 23 (4.04%) GitHub
9 22 (3.87%) Snowflake
10 21 (3.69%) OneDrive
11 20 (3.51%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.99%) SaaS
13 13 (2.28%) IaaS
14 10 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 10 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (1.58%) PaaS
16 8 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.07%) Firewall
2 25 (4.39%) TCP/IP
3 24 (4.22%) VPN
4 23 (4.04%) DNS
5 20 (3.51%) WAN
6 19 (3.34%) DHCP
7 15 (2.64%) Internet
8 14 (2.46%) LAN
9 6 (1.05%) Broadband
9 6 (1.05%) SAN
10 5 (0.88%) Network Security
10 5 (0.88%) VLAN
11 4 (0.70%) DMZ
11 4 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.70%) WLAN
12 3 (0.53%) SSL
12 3 (0.53%) Wireless
13 1 (0.18%) IPv4
13 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (20.04%) Power BI
2 80 (14.06%) Tableau
3 27 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (4.75%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.28%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.41%) MySQL
8 7 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.05%) Looker
9 6 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.05%) Redis
9 6 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.70%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.53%) Big Data
12 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (2.99%) Git
2 10 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.23%) JIRA
4 6 (1.05%) MLflow
5 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.18%) MSTest
5 1 (0.18%) NUnit
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.18%) TestNG
General
1 310 (54.48%) Social Skills
2 64 (11.25%) Finance
3 26 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.04%) Law
5 15 (2.64%) Multimedia
6 13 (2.28%) Public Sector
7 11 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.41%) Marketing
10 8 (1.41%) Publishing
11 6 (1.05%) Retail
12 4 (0.70%) Banking
12 4 (0.70%) Legal
12 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.53%) Advertising
14 2 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 157 (27.59%) Analyst
2 150 (26.36%) Junior
3 144 (25.31%) Junior Analyst
4 73 (12.83%) Security Analyst
5 72 (12.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 72 (12.65%) Data Analyst
5 72 (12.65%) Junior Data Analyst
5 72 (12.65%) Junior Security Analyst
6 69 (12.13%) IT Support
7 56 (9.84%) Developer
8 50 (8.79%) Senior
9 48 (8.44%) Ethical Hacker
10 42 (7.38%) Architect
11 38 (6.68%) IT Engineer
12 36 (6.33%) Support Engineer
13 33 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (5.10%) IT Support Engineer
15 26 (4.57%) Lead
16 25 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (4.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.26%) CSS
2 36 (6.33%) HTML
3 26 (4.57%) .NET
4 18 (3.16%) REST
5 17 (2.99%) .NET Core
6 15 (2.64%) JSON
7 12 (2.11%) HTML5 Canvas
7 12 (2.11%) jQuery
7 12 (2.11%) React
8 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
8 10 (1.76%) SOAP
8 10 (1.76%) SPFx
9 9 (1.58%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.58%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.41%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.23%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.23%) Kafka
12 6 (1.05%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (1.05%) LangChain
12 6 (1.05%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.44%) Cyberattack
2 32 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.41%) Clustering
5 8 (1.41%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.05%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.05%) Robotics
8 5 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.88%) PKI
8 5 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (0.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 94 (16.52%) Windows
2 64 (11.25%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (1.76%) Linux
4 10 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.58%) Android
6 8 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.88%) VMS
7 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (32.51%) Cybersecurity
2 125 (21.97%) AI
3 117 (20.56%) Mentoring
4 116 (20.39%) Business Intelligence
5 71 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (10.90%) Agile
7 48 (8.44%) DevOps
7 48 (8.44%) Ethical Hacking
8 47 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (6.68%) Analytics
10 36 (6.33%) ITIL
10 36 (6.33%) Roadmaps
11 35 (6.15%) CI/CD
12 32 (5.62%) ERP
12 32 (5.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (5.45%) Data Modelling
14 29 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (5.10%) Software Engineering
15 28 (4.92%) Computer Science
16 27 (4.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 139 (24.43%) SQL
2 132 (23.20%) Python
3 51 (8.96%) C#
4 40 (7.03%) JavaScript
4 40 (7.03%) PowerShell
5 20 (3.51%) PHP
6 14 (2.46%) Java
7 13 (2.28%) R
7 13 (2.28%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.93%) C++
9 6 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.88%) Bash
11 2 (0.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 251 (44.11%) Azure Certification
2 73 (12.83%) CompTIA CySA+
2 73 (12.83%) CompTIA Security+
3 49 (8.61%) Degree
4 48 (8.44%) CEH
5 43 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (6.33%) Security Cleared
7 27 (4.75%) AWS Certification
8 26 (4.57%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (4.04%) SC Cleared
10 21 (3.69%) CCNA
11 20 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
13 15 (2.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (1.05%) CCNP
16 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.64%) GDPR
3 11 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.93%) QA
4 9 (1.58%) GRC
5 7 (1.23%) NIST
6 6 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.70%) JSP 440
8 4 (0.70%) NCSC
8 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.70%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (15.99%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.41%) Docker
6 7 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.70%) vSphere
8 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.11%) Terraform
3 11 (1.93%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.58%) Ansible
5 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.70%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.70%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.35%) SCCM
7 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 388 (68.19%) Microsoft
2 132 (23.20%) ForeScout
3 27 (4.75%) VMware
4 22 (3.87%) Cisco
5 16 (2.81%) Databricks
5 16 (2.81%) SAP
6 14 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.76%) Adobe
7 10 (1.76%) Epicor
8 9 (1.58%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.58%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.41%) Apple
9 8 (1.41%) Workday
10 7 (1.23%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.23%) Veeam
11 6 (1.05%) Aruba
11 6 (1.05%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.05%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.05%) Pega